Yamaha QY20 Owner's Manual page 35

3
Getting to Know the QY20: How the Controls Work
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Sequencer
track 1.
0 Octave Keys
OCT
OCT
DOWN
UP
BASS
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In the SONG mode, use the cursor keys to place the
Try This:
cursor at the sequencer track 1 position ("TR1" on the
display).
Now play the micro keyboard. You should hear the
voice that is currently assigned to sequencer track 1.
Also try moving the cursor to the accompaniment bass
("Ba") and drum ("Dr") tracks and playing the cur-
rently assigned bass and drum voices. In the SONG
mode, the micro keyboard plays the voice assigned to
the currently selected track (unless you're recording the
accompaniment chord tracks, in which case it is used to
specify chords).
Since the 2-octave range of the micro-keyboard is not enough for
serious music programming, the [ OCT DOWN ] and [ OCT UP ] keys
allow the pitch of the keyboard to be shifted up or down in octave
steps, over a range of 8 octaves. Each time the [ OCT DOWN ] key is
pressed the pitch of the keyboard is shifted down by one octave, until
the lower limit is reached. The [ OCT UP ] key shifts the pitch of the
keyboard up in the same way.